The service contractor completed repairs for all monitors by April 8, 2011.

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That followed the drafting in of an extra 3, 500 service personnel last week after contractor G4S admitted a shortage of staff.

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If you are an independent contractor who provides a service or sells a product, you already know the value of your own commodities.

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After he left the Agency's clandestine service, he returned as a contractor to help with counterterrorism-related matters, earning the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion, its highest decoration for such non-employee personnel.

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Rather than simply watch the process, Josh walked up and down the street as the contractor worked and sold his service to every other house on the block.

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David uses the Rocket Lawyer service to guide him through setting up his contractor agreements.

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That means the Virginia-based defense and civil contractor employs the greatest number of former military service members in skilled labor positions.

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When the council started the one-year trial with Xfor in April, it said the "service will come at no cost to the council" because the contractor's costs would be met by "fixed penalty notices".

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The contractor managed to cut water tariffs and to extend 24-hour service to an extra 3m poor people, who found that their piped supplies cost one-tenth or less of what they had been paying to private water vendors.

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"We are working closely with the contractor, Thales, on this and the progress made ultimately dictates when lines can open for service, " he said.

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